Terry is a former actor, theatre-director and museum manager. Terry Deary has created a book which details how life was in the trenches and at home during World War One.
Terry Deary retells the true story of the heroic pigeon Cher Ami and his 16 year-old handler Joe in an easily accessible format. The characters never fail to amuse and the book moves at a nice quick pace. Think that Ancient Egypt is nothing but a load of ancient obelisks?
Do not bet your afterlife on it. Ancient Egypt should be more than dead than a lot of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height some five thousand years prior. We do still ponder about the pyramids and marvel at all the mummies. It is rather easy to forget about these people actually living, breathing, and loving, though not for too long. These were some dangerous days for peasants and princes alike. In Ancient Egypt, a world of woes and wars, plagues and poverty, life was pretty short.
Forty was a good age to reach. A Pharaoh that was eaten by a hippo wound up just as dead as a ditch digger that got stung by a scorpion.
Terry delivers a fun, dangerously witty, and interesting read. He also concentrates on the horrible tiny details that serve to bring the past to life. The book does a great job of teaching the reader, while entertaining them at the same time. The links beside each book title will take you to Amazon where you can read more about the book, or purchase it. As an Amazon Associate, I earn money from qualifying purchases. If you would like to link to us, Get the Code Here.
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A phenomenal book and one that I would recommend the audiobook version of just for the full experience. An amazing author, and our author of the month! More Details. I just want to thank everyone for visiting the site. A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was Most famously, he is one of the authors of the Horrible Histories series of books popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and humorous pictures and among adults for getting children interested in history.
Books in the series have been widely translated into other languages and imitated. A cartoon series has been made of the series of books and was shown on CiTV for a period in The first series of a live action comedy sketch show of the same name was shown on CBBC in Terry is also known widely throughout children and adult reading groups alike for his True Stories series see below for series list.
He makes cameos in the TV series, he's a reoccuring actor , however none of his characters are reoccurring. This non-fiction series was released in both hardback and paperback beginning with the latest edition non-combination being published and released in A list of the books in this series are below:.
There have also been two books that were combinations of more than one of the previously named books. It doesn't matter if it's a book, an e-book, a play, television, an exhibition. Which perhaps explains why Horrible Histories has indeed been adapted for pretty much all the platforms he mentions.
It has such a great sense of the past. We shouldn't try to dress it up as brilliant history. Deary unsurprisingly cares little what historians think, but he does acknowledge: "Horrible Histories distort history.
If you're rich, powerful and Royal, then you're bad. I'm not very fair. And I can't find any exception to that, so I just keep on saying that. He reiterates: "My whole career is aimed at changing the world, and changing the way people, especially young people, look at it.
And that's what I'll do. Through any medium I can find. Horrible Histories writer dislikes historians. Image source, PA Media. He doesn't. Image source, Mark Douet. Image source, Getty Images. The cast of Horrible Histories: The Movie at its premiere last month.
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